Movement Constructor Continuous Improvement

Ref 2585400 | Date: 14 Oct 2026

PATEK PHILIPPE SA GENEVE

Patek Philippe SA Genève

Movement Constructor Continuous Improvement (M/F)

Mission

As part of this function, reporting to our Research & Development Division, your mission will be to sustainably improve the performance and quality of our existing products. You will also lead the redesign of watchmaking components with the aim of guaranteeing the repair and longevity of all our old calibers by the International Customer Service (SCI), thus contributing to the preservation of our watchmaking heritage and the satisfaction of our customers.

Responsibilities

• Independently conduct feasibility and construction studies for partial mechanisms ranging from basic mechanical movements to grand complications, including automatics, quartz, perpetual calendars, and chronographs.
• Ensure the management of a multidisciplinary project team by being the guarantor of the robustness of the proposed solution within the deadlines.
• Manage prototyping and qualification phases as well as the monitoring of the improvement deployment in partnership with different services of the Division.
• Establish, manage, and monitor reporting on project progress in collaboration with the line manager.

Profile sought

• Bachelor in microtechnology, specialization in watchmaking construction.
• 5 years of experience in movement construction in the high-end watchmaking field.
• Very good knowledge of watchmaking theory as well as watchmaking construction and manufacturing processes.
• Mastery of CAD (ideally Solidworks), NIHS standards, and GPS dimensioning.
• Rigor, precision, sense of analysis and synthesis.
• Proactive, autonomy, resilience.
• Interpersonal skills, team spirit, sense of diplomacy.
• Pragmatism, results and field orientation.
• Ease of adaptation within project teams.
• Ability to manage uncertainty.

Job reference

3747

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